An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages: Containing an Examination of M. Raynouard's Theory on the Relation of the Italian, Spanish, Provençal and French to the LatinJohn Murray, 1839 - 323 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
adjectives adverb affirmative amatz amor ancient appears Arabic auxiliary verbs Cinonio cited Comp compounded conjugation consonant corrupted Dante declension derived English euphonic feminine final vowel France French language Gaul gender genitive German Goth Grammar Greek Grimm guages idiom inflexions instances Ital Italian and Spanish Italy languages of France langue langue d'oc Latin form Latin language Latin nouns Latin termination Latin word latter likewise lingua mance masc masculine means Menage mination modern languages Muratori native negative particle neuter nominative nouard nouns and participles observed occurs old French Orell origin peculiar person Perticari plural Portuguese prefixed preposition probably pronoun Prov Provençal and French Raynouard remarks retained Romana rustica Romance languages says Schlegel sense signified singular sometimes Spain Span spoken substantives syllable termina Teutonic tion tive Troubadours Tuscan vençal vowel vowel terminations Wachter whence writers
Passagens conhecidas
Página 231 - Mentre che il vento, come fa, si tace. Siede la terra dove nata fui, Su la marina dove il Po discende Per aver pace co
Página 49 - Their language is attacked on every side. Schools are erected, in which English only is taught, and there were lately some who thought it reasonable to refuse them a version of the holy scriptures, that they might have no monument of their mother-tongue.
Página 27 - when synthetic languages have at an early period been fixed by books which served as models, and by a regular instruction, they retained their form unchanged ; but when they have been abandoned to themselves, and exposed to the fluctuations of all human affairs, they have shown a natural tendency to become analytic, even without having been modified by the mixture of any foreign language.
Página 261 - E non pur io qui piango Bolognese : Anzi n'e questo luogo tanto pieno, Che tante lingue non son ora apprese A dicer sipa tra Savena e'l'Reno.
Página 273 - Te saluto, alma Dea, Dea generosa, O gloria nostra, O Veneta Regina ! In procelloso turbine funesto Tu regnasti secura ; mille membra Intrepida prostrasti in pugna acerba. Per te miser non fui, per te non gemo ; Vivo in pace per te. Regna, O beata, Rcgna in prospera sorte, in alta pompa, In augusto splendore, in aurea sede.
Página 246 - D' amor non dei dire mas be, Quar non ai ni petit ni re, Quar ben leu plus no m'en cove; Pero leumens Dona gran joi qui be mante Los aizimens Per tal n' ai meins de bon saber, Quar vuelh so que no puesc aver - Aicel repr'oviers me ditz ver Certanamens: A bon coratg...
Página 52 - It is a curious fact," says a writer in the Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xx. p. 490, " that the hills of King's Seat and Craigy Barns, which form the lower boundary of Dowally, (parish in Perthshire,) have been, for centuries, the separating barrier of the English and Gaelic.
Página 61 - ... introduced. With regard to the Roman language, it has been supposed that the sudden change which the Latin underwent at the time of the German invasion, was the consequence of the imitation of the German idiom. But it seems more than doubtful whether the use even of the definite article had at that aera been introduced into the Teutonic languages ; and it is probable that we shall most nearly approach the truth, if we suppose that when the Latin was by that event put into a state favourable to...
Página 49 - The clans retain little now of their original character; their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of their country, there remain only their language and their poverty.
Página 52 - Perthshire), have been for centuries the separatory barrier of the English and Gaelic. In the first house below them, the English is and has been spoken, and the Gaelic in the first house, not above a mile distant above them.